How do musicians know what notes to play?

                  How do musicians know what notes to play?

When composing a piece of music , the composer writes down all the notes that each of the instruments will play - this is know as the score. The way the notes are written down indicates how high or low, fast or slow they should be played. Special instructions in Italian give the players more information.

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In the past, people made drums, rattles, and whistles out of wood, seeds and animal hide. Simple flutes have been found that are between 22,000 and 35,000 years old. They were made by boring(to make a hole in something hard with a tool) series of holes into a hollow animal bone and blowing down it.